CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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165 km from Krasnoye Selo to Krasnoye Selo, about 2 h 55 of riding. It goes by way of The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin, The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag, The Palace and Park Ensemble «Sergievka» and back through The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 25 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
The land around St Petersburg is almost perfectly flat, so any hill gets noticed. The Duderhof Heights, a pair of wooded hills rising south of the city near Krasnoye Selo, are the highest ground for many kilometres around, with the higher one, Voronya Gora or Crow Hill, reaching a little under two hundred metres above sea level. From the top, on a clear day, you can see the gilded domes of the city and the waters of the Gulf of Finland.
Read the complete Dudergofskaya Elevation write-up.
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Dudergofskaya Elevation is where the day begins. Next is The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin.
On the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, between St Petersburg and Peterhof, the old road runs past a string of palaces and estates that the Russian elite built in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to be near the sea and the court. Among them, near Strelna, stands the Trinity-Sergius Hermitage, a monastery founded in the eighteenth century as a dependency of the great Trinity Lavra of St Sergius near Moscow. It is part of the wide UNESCO listing of St Petersburg's historic centre and the monuments around it.
Read the complete The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin write-up.
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The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag.
Ropsha is one of those places where the scenery is gentle and the history is anything but. The village sits on the low Izhora Upland southwest of St Petersburg, between Krasnoe Selo and the coast road at Lomonosov, and the palace that gives the estate its name looks down over a chain of spring-fed ponds and a slow, wooded park. It was here, in July 1762, that the freshly deposed Emperor Peter III was held after his wife Catherine seized the throne, and here that he died a few days later under circumstances nobody at court cared to explain. Catherine became "the Great"; Ropsha became a footnote with a chill on it.
Read the complete The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag write-up.
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about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag. Next is The Palace and Park Ensemble «Sergievka».
Peterhof is the tsars' answer to Versailles, strung along the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland about thirty kilometres west of St Petersburg, and Sergievka belongs to its quieter western fringe. Think of it less as one famous building than as a country estate in the old Peterhof manner, with a house, an overgrown park, ponds and lawns, laid out when noble families built summer retreats close to the court.
Read the complete The Palace and Park Ensemble «Sergievka» write-up.
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The Palace and Park Ensemble «Sergievka», about halfway. Next is back through The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin comes up about 135 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dudergofskaya Elevation.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dudergofskaya Elevation write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Dudergofskaya Elevation closes the day.
Dudergofskaya Elevation → The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin → The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag → The Palace and Park Ensemble «Sergievka» is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Palace and Park Ensemble «Sergievka» → back through The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag → back through The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin → Dudergofskaya Elevation is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.